Toronto Maple Leafs: Where Losing Is Not an Option, It's a Given

Toronto Maple Leafs: Where Losing Is Not an Option, It's a Given

That's how long it has been since the Toronto Maple Leafs have even competed for a Stanley Cup.

Years.

That's how long it has been since the Leafs have even made the post season.

Limitless.

That seems to be the number of reasons why the Leafs are the biggest losers in professional sports, but here are the top five reasons the Leafs are in their most recent mess.

The Fans

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#1? In losing...oh the humanity.Phillip MacCallum/Getty Images

The Fans.

If losing isn't an option, you'd never know it by speaking to a Leafs fan, or at least enough of them. Sellouts, hand-over-fist merchandise sales and wall-to-wall media consumption, all in the face of decades of abject failure, says it all.